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This weekend, the fan club launches the "Solidarity Campaign to Black Out Violence," an effort to stop crime and create more goodwill for Silver & Black supporters. Rivera tells the Mercury News that the No. 1 focus is getting the word out that the "Black Hole" is not a bunch of wild criminals and hoodlums, but a charitable, big-hearted group.

The Raiders' most loyal fans celebrate Halloween every home game with a combination of scary masks, painted faces and outrageous chains and spiked outfits. Fans in the "Black Hole" really are the sporting world's closest imitation to the wacky crowd that attends Comic-Con, the nation's largest comic book convention each year in San Diego.

Although the group has good intentions, it understands not everyone who supports the Raiders will be on board.

"There is no sugarcoating here," Rivera told the Mercury News. "There is going to be an element of Raider fans that are going to do the wrong thing, but people need to realize that some of the most visible people in the Raider Nation are the ones who get labeled with this negative connotation. We do want people to know we are sick and tired of hearing the constant negative, almost like an insulting tone, whenever it has anything to do with the Raider Nation, and we are going to do everything we can to let people in and let them know that."

It may take generations to convince most folks that the majority of Raiders fans are small business owners, police officers and law abiding citizens, rather than the troublemakers we see on the news.

But this is a good start.

You can take shots at Raiders fans, but don't deny the greatness of the team theme song.